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{{Short description|1890 painting by Vincent van Gogh}}
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{{Infobox artwork
| title              = Wheatfield with Crows
| image_file         = Korenveld met kraaien - s0149V1962 - Van Gogh Museum.jpg
| image_size         = 400px
| image_upright      = 1
| alt                = A painting of a wheat field with crows flying above.
| other_language_1   = [[Dutch language|Dutch]]
| artist             = [[Vincent van Gogh]]
| year               = July 1890
| medium             = [[Oil painting|Oil on canvas]]
| catalogue          = {{Flatlist}}
*[[Jacob Baart de la Faille|F779]]
*[[Jan Hulsker|JH2117]]
{{Endflatlist}}
| height_metric      = 50.2
| width_metric       = 103
| metric_unit        = cm
| imperial_unit      = in
| city               = [[Amsterdam]]
| museum             = [[Van Gogh Museum]]
}}

'''''Wheatfield with Crows''''' ({{langx|nl|Korenveld met kraaien}}) is a July 1890 painting by [[Vincent van Gogh]]. It has been cited by several critics as one of his greatest works.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B6JTCCBSZuoC&pg=PA11|title=Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-garde|page=11|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|date=2006|isbn=1588391957}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cqWFCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT101|title=Art, Literature and Culture from a Marxist Perspective|last=McKenna|first=Tony|publisher=Springer|date=2015|isbn=978-1137526618}}</ref>

It is commonly stated that this was Van Gogh's final painting. This association was popularized by Vincente Minnelli’s 1956 biopic ''[[Lust for Life (1956 film)|Lust for Life]]'', which depicts Van Gogh painting it immediately before shooting himself. His final painting in actuality was ''[[Tree Roots]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Siegal |first=Nina |date=2020-07-28 |title=A Clue to van Gogh's Final Days Is Found in His Last Painting |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/arts/design/vincent-van-gogh-tree-roots.html |access-date=2022-09-28 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The evidence of his letters suggests that ''Wheatfield with Crows'' was completed around 10 July and predates such paintings as ''[[The Town Hall at Auvers|Auvers Town Hall on 14 July 1890]]'' and ''[[Daubigny's Garden]]''.<ref name="Letter"/><ref name= "VGM"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vggallery.com/painting/by_period/auvers.htm| title=Auvers-sur-Oise: May – July 1890 (75 paintings) |publisher=vggallery.com|access-date=29 July 2010}}</ref> Moreover, [[Jan Hulsker]] has written that a painting of harvested wheat, ''Field with Stacks of Wheat'' (F771), must be a later painting.<ref name= "Hulsker">{{cite book|last=Hulsker|first=Jan|title=The Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches|year=1986|work=[[Random House]]|isbn=0-517-44867-X|page=480|publisher=Harrison House/Harry N. Abrams }}</ref>